2010 - 2011

This session, part of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research's summer workshop, focuses on the curriculum development of content-based thematic units. The presenter will introduce a framework for developing curricula and guides the participants through the process of designing content-based thematic units. Participants will engage in hands-on demonstration lessons and explore a variety of content-based instructional strategies to promote students' skills in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will have developed their own units to enhance their curricula.

This session, part of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research's summer workshop, focuses on the curriculum development of content-based thematic units. The presenter will introduce a framework for developing curricula and guides the participants through the process of designing content-based thematic units. Participants will engage in hands-on demonstration lessons and explore a variety of content-based instructional strategies to promote students' skills in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will have developed their own units to enhance their curricula.

The workshop, for practicing K-12 classroom teachers, focuses on offering curricular ideas around various issues in global education. The integration of global education is imperative to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed for responsible participation in a democratic society and in a global community in the twenty-first century.

Have you ever been curious about a career in intelligence? If so, come and learn about the different career paths available within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). An informal Q&A will follow the presentations.

Leaders in various international initiatives at Penn State will discuss the possibilities and challenges that globalizing trends present to faculty and students in institutions of higher education, and to offer creative ways that the PSU community can address them. Ultimately our goal is to consider how PSU can lead the future of global education. There will be a reception following the event from 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Why has the U.S. government failed to join in climate change agreements adopted by much of the rest of the world? In honor of Earth Day, the School of International Affairs will host an event focused on this question featuring a film screening and discussion moderated by renowned Penn State researcher, Donald A. Brown.

This discussion, moderated by Dr. John Kelmelis, will look at the impact and the implications of disasters in Japan from a variety of perspectives. Panelists include Dr. Charles Ammon, Dr. Gregory Smits, Dr. Arthur Motta, and Dr. Yumiko Watanabe. There will be a reception from 6:30-7:00 beforehand.

The purpose of this event is to raise awareness and initiate dialogue on environmental justice issues that disproportionately and unjustly impact minority groups globally. Guest speaker will be journalist, activist, and political analyst Bakari Kitwana.

This symposium brings together writers, readers, translators, editors, and literary scholars to celebrate the presence of world literature in translation in the United States, and to discuss a crucial aspect of the development and current status of the world republic of letters – the majoritizing of minor literatures through translation. “Minority” refers here both to literary cultures that make use of languages without the superregional resonance enjoyed by English, French, Spanish, and a few other languages, to those that exist in an imbalance vis à vis a related dominant culture (Portuguese vs. Spanish; Ukrainian vs. Russian), but also to the underrepresentation of nearly any non-English literature in the marketplace of US publishing. To “majoritize” such literatures means to integrate their richnesses into the wealth of cultural production and consumption in North America.

This symposium brings together writers, readers, translators, editors, and literary scholars to celebrate the presence of world literature in translation in the United States, and to discuss a crucial aspect of the development and current status of the world republic of letters – the majoritizing of minor literatures through translation. “Minority” refers here both to literary cultures that make use of languages without the superregional resonance enjoyed by English, French, Spanish, and a few other languages, to those that exist in an imbalance vis à vis a related dominant culture (Portuguese vs. Spanish; Ukrainian vs. Russian), but also to the underrepresentation of nearly any non-English literature in the marketplace of US publishing. To “majoritize” such literatures means to integrate their richnesses into the wealth of cultural production and consumption in North America.

Amal Amireh, George Mason University, and Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Amireh is the author of The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Garland, 2000), and is co-editor, with Lisa Suhair Majaj, of Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers (Garland, 2000) and Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist (McFarland, 2002).

Dr. Hassan is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois. His areas of interest include Modern Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone literatures; literary and cultural theory; gender, postcolonial, translation, and transnational studies. His publications include Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction(Syracuse University Press, 2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab-American and Arab-British Literature(Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011).

James Dawes is a Professor of English and American Literature, Chair of the Macalester College English Department, and the Founder and Director of the Program in Human Rights and Humanitarianism. Some of his published work includes That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (Harvard University Press, 2007) and The Language of War (Harvard University Press, 2002)

Professor Dawes’s visit is a part of the series “Violence, Conflict, and Dialogue: Perspectives on Global Communication,” sponsored by the Center for Global Studies, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Latin American Studies program, the Department of Spanish Italian & Portuguese, the Social Thought Program, The Rock Ethics Institute, the Center for Democratic Deliberation, and the Center for American Literary Studies. Throughout the spring semester, various speakers will be invited to Penn State to present interdisciplinary views on this broad topic.

Diana Taylor is a Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU, and the Founding Director of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Some of her recent works include Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ (Duke U.P., 1997) and The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke U.P., 2003) which won the ATHE Research Award in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy and the Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for the best book in Latin American and Spanish Literatures and Culture (2004). She is editor of Stages of Conflict: A Reader in Latin American Theatre and Performance (2008, Michigan U. P.) and co-editor of Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (2004, Duke U.P.), among others.

Professor Taylor’s visit is a part of the series “Violence, Conflict, and Dialogue: Perspectives on Global Communication,” sponsored by the Center for Global Studies, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Latin American Studies program, the Department of Spanish Italian & Portuguese, the Social Thought Program, The Rock Ethics Institute, the Center for Democratic Deliberation, and the Center for American Literary Studies. Throughout the spring semester, various speakers will be invited to Penn State to present interdisciplinary views on this broad topic.

John Beverley is a Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, with particular expertise in the literature of the Golden Age, Hispanic and Latin American baroque, Latin American cultural studies, Testimonio writings, Spanish and Latin American film, U.S. Latino literature, and postcolonial and subaltern studies. He is a founding member of both the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. Some of Professor Beverley’s publications include From Cuba (ed. 2002), La voz del otro: Testimonio, subalternidad y verdad narrativa (ed. new edition; 2002), and Subalternity and Representation, Arguments in Cultural Theory (1999).

Professor Beverley’s visit is a part of the series “Violence, Conflict, and Dialogue: Perspectives on Global Communication,” sponsored by the Center for Global Studies, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Latin American Studies program, the Department of Spanish Italian & Portuguese, the Social Thought Program, The Rock Ethics Institute, the Center for Democratic Deliberation, and the Center for American Literary Studies. Throughout the spring semester, various speakers will be invited to Penn State to present interdisciplinary views on this broad topic.

“Embracing a post-national perspective does not entail depreciation or forsaking of literary and cultural traditions. On the contrary, enabling us to read better, read again and attend to the urgency of a different, and richer protocol that heeds the exigencies of the day will allow us to re-open the books and the world of letters that are now no longer subject to the dictate of national appropriation.”

A Public Talk with Chilean Environmental Economist, Diplomat and Spiritual Teacher Alfredo Sfeir-Younis.

A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with drinks and dessert provided.

Sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Center for Global Studies

"It is impossible to attain the aims of a sustainable civilization without agreeing on a bundle of rights, be it for this generation or future generations. Sustainable Development embodies a social contract which must unfold from a vision and a set of human values that prove essential to human transformation in our global reality." -Alfredo Sfeir-Younis

The Center for Global Studies

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